folkloric

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Their authors were seldom scholars; more often they were nonprofessional writers and editors whose volunteer contributions ranged from family snapshots to gravestone photographs, fragmented town histories, folkloric anecdotes and tall tales.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

This painting is a "very personal" image, in which Kahlo "merges folkloric motifs from Mexican culture with European surrealism," Anna Di Stasi, head of Latin American art at Sotheby's, told AFP.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

And he dances like a Greek native in a folkloric wedding scene, the sort of local-color diversion that added shine and reality to many a movie back in the 1970s.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

The 1990s started with a photograph that has achieved almost folkloric status as one of the best images of an Unidentified Flying Object.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025

“And one student is doing a folkloric dance, that type of thing. Acts Posada might enjoy if he was alive.”

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez